Talk to them about things they know about already. Cookie banners, social media, google adware. They just need to have their own concerns reinforced. You don’t need to nor should you give them your entire diatribe

The funny thing about making mistakes is you don’t recognize when you make them 🙃

How? If every model was open source and you could run on your own hardware?

I don’t think “the absence of copyright” is the best description of copyleft. I believe “the right to copy is left to the end user” better encapsulates the spirit.

My issue isn’t with using AI to work on the Linux Kernel. My issue is working on the kernel with proprietary AI which enables Sam Altman to claim Millennium Prizes.

Explain it to me like I’m five

You don’t have to use it? 🤷‍♀️

I’m huge on giving acts of service and gift giving and on receiving physical touch and words of affirmation. Quality time alone is equally as important as quality time together.

It’s a philosophical framework not a scientific dissertation.

I love that this is a common conversation. Allow me to pick up where we left off. No we don’t use them because flatheads are bullshit. A flathead screw driver always slides out at speeds comparable to the average speed of other heads. And don’t get me started on phillips. They are designed to strip. Then you need a square head to remove it, so you might as well start there. Default square head. Other than square is inferior to star. Torx is the one true driver!

How does that compare to nerd dictation?

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She’s a pretty proficient windows user who mentioned looking at kbuntu. She can probably handle some rough edges on her own, but I have no interest in long term support. So probably mint 🤣

That’s a very good point

I have a little more hope for future generations. Regardless of if you are primarily using ai to speed up a traditional work flow or vibe coding, there still are more and less effective ways to get things done. I’ve found if I write sonething I’m familiar with like bash or Python, I “know enough” to write functions and refactor incrementally. It’s a methodical process which produces code better than I can write by myself in less time.

Compare that to when I write Lisp. There it’s more or less throw shit at the wall until I somewhat get what I want. It takes longer and can be next to impossible to extend or effectively refactor.

Based on that observation of myself, I think we’ll find two (and probably more) kinds of programmers in the future. Ones who use it as an assistant to speed up a traditional workflow, and those who produce the slop that we are afraid of.

Perhaps to give us any amount of additional hope/comparison to now. There still have been people who have programmed now who create slop. And that comes to the way we use references like stack exchange or the Arch Wiki. Are you copy and pasting while learning what things mean and learning in the process? Or are you just stringing things together to get results at all? I don’t think we would argue those references made all of us worse.

So I think it’s an apt concern, but we’ll have to wait to see what it’s like whole sale. I was a doubter for a long time, but I’ve come to understand where Torvalds et al are coming from.

This is largely an oversimplification because it depends on how you use AI in the first place. Are you building modularly and incrementally? Or are you letting it ride on black?

Tell them it is against your religion https://stallman.org/saint.html

Tell them it is against you religion https://stallman.org/saint.html

Read the room and make sure others are onboard. Make yourself too much of a dug in wingnut and you’ll undermine your actual work

I don’t think it is as popular with the younger crowd. It’s a battle royal like fortnite but it’s more of a “military shooter” than a “fantasy shooter”. It’s what you’d get if you crossed fortnite and counterstrike